EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)- El Pasoans Elizabeth Wyant and Arturo Amaro took a leap of faith, turning their business dreams into reality. Now, it’s paying off!<\/p>\n
In 2024, the duo opened Ch\u00e9ri Nails and Spa in West El Paso. The salon is reinventing the beauty industry locally, giving customers a modern salon experience while using unique nail techniques.<\/p>\n
Wyant always knew she wanted to enter the beauty space with the goal of one day opening her own business.<\/p>\n
Both siblings graduated from Franklin High School. Wyant was part of El Paso ISD\u2019s Center for Career and Technology Education. CCTE offers a variety of programs to help equip high school students with real-world skills.<\/p>\n
She wanted to learn more about makeup specifically. After the two-year program, Wyant would receive a cosmetology degree. The program helped her gain various beauty skills, including hair, facials and nails.<\/p>\n
“The program actually gave me the ability to get other skills, not just one single thing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
After graduating from Franklin High School, Wyant would pursue a journalism degree from UTEP.<\/p>\n
During her university years, the opportunity arose for her to do nails as a side hustle. She loved it!<\/p>\n
Wyant would move to South Korea to study abroad. It was an eye-opening experience for her; she realized El Paso was behind in the beauty space. She hoped to bring her new expertise to the Sun City.<\/p>\n
After returning to the Borderland, she earned her teacher certification and became an elementary school teacher. While it was a stable career, she felt unfulfilled professionally. She quickly realized she needed to follow her heart and pursue the nail industry.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that’s when I told my brother, and he had always told me, like, let’s open it now, salon!”<\/p>\n
Amaro had previously been pursuing a degree in law enforcement. After his plans changed, he started his own business ventures.<\/p>\n
Now, both siblings are living the best of both worlds! Wyant helps run the creative side of the business, while Amaro assists with business operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just brings the artist out in me, and I really enjoy that. I also enjoy seeing when people come out of the salon, and they’re happy,\u201d Wyant said.<\/p>\n
The leap of faith has paid off for the siblings. <\/p>\n
They want to continue inspiring other generations of business entrepreneurs. They have even hired other EPISD CCTE graduates.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope we inspire people to, you know, encourage them to open their business if they have that little, you know, passion for something,\u201d Amaro added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)- El Pasoans Elizabeth Wyant and Arturo Amaro took a leap of faith, turning their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-440506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}